Description

In Russia and America, a perceived absence of literature gave rise to grandiose notions of literature's importance. This book examines how two traditions worked to refigure cultural lack, not by disputing it but by insisting on it, by representing the nation's (putative) cultural deficit as a moral and aesthetic advantage.

Auteur

Anne Lounsbery is Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Study in the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University.